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8 Advantages To Building Your Own Startup Prototypes

Startup Professionals Musings

There are already more than 1500 active hackerspaces worldwide, with info on Hackerspaces. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization.

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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

socalTECH

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

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Interview with Buck Jordan, Miso Robotics

socalTECH

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. The demand is there. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

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The Maker Movement Is A New Mecca For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

There are already more than 500 active hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on Hackerspaces.org. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization.

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Meet the 15 Eureka Park Startups Competing at CES Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. This is a virtual pet sitter device that challenges them to playful and smart activities, and rewards them when they accomplish a task. Astronomy can be an activity for everyone.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

Specifically, the proposal calls for funding for community-based small business incubators and innovation hubs to support growth in communities of color and underserved communites. Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars.

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